Colfe’s is uniting its Prep School (ages
6-10) and Pre-Prep and Nursery (ages 3-6) from September 2016 to form a single
school: Colfe’s Junior School.

The change recognises that most of the pupils
joining the current Prep School have already been at Colfe’s since the Nursery
or Reception year. This is a result of
rapidly growing numbers attending the Pre-Prep and Nursery. Colfe’s opened stunning new buildings to
accommodate them in 2014.

The combined Junior School will give greater
impetus to providing a seamless academic transition for children throughout the
early stages of their school career (and indeed onwards into the Senior
School). There will also be some
administrative efficiencies as duplicate services, including after-school care,
are brought together.

The first head of Colfe’s Junior School is to be Catriona
Macleod. Catriona has previously been
Head of the independent Dunottar Junior School for Girls and Knightsbridge
Junior School; she has latterly been acting head of a free school.